This week, the South African Police Services in partnership with Stats SA released the country’s crime statistics for 2018. And, it had us shook!
Here’s a simplified breakdown of the most shocking stats from the report:
- 57 People are murdered each day
- 110 People raped a day
- Cash in transit heists have increased by 56.6%, with a total of 238 CIT heists over 2017/2018
- A total of 16 325 carjackings have taken place. (A decrease from last year by 2,3%)
- 938 Child murders have taken place, with the highest child murders occurring in the Western Cape.
- 22 261 Residential robberies
The country’s #CrimeStats for 2017/2018 were revealed in Parliament today. Here are some of the shocking figures: #CrimeStatistics
📽️: Sandisiwe Ntlemeza/African News Agency (ANA) pic.twitter.com/L9eqUalkKS
— IOL News (@IOL) September 11, 2018
The rather disturbing statistics incited concerned South Africans to take to social media and sound off on the findings.
Read the most thought-provoking Tweets here:
Nyanga residents react after their area has once again been dubbed the number one murder capital of the country. The Nyanga police station has the most recorded murders in South Africa #CrimeStatistics pic.twitter.com/8xawd4DuEj
— Athi Mtongana (@Artii_M) September 11, 2018
Bring back the death penalty!!!
Bring back the death penalty!!!
Bring back the death penalty!!! #CrimeStatistics
— Dikeledi (@DeekaySeripe) September 11, 2018
3,915 women & children were murdered in the last year.
291 more women were killed in 2017.
117 more boys and 29 more girls.
South Africa remains a very angry and dangerous country for women and children. #CrimeStatistics #CrimeStats https://t.co/rsZLJybAkC @GenderLinks pic.twitter.com/rDDq1fmysI
— Kubeshni Govender (@Kubeshni) September 11, 2018
Social ills not attended to leads to high Crime rate in our communities #CrimeStats #CrimeStatistics #CrimePrevention #YouthUnemployment #schoolsafety #Poverty #drugsmustfall illegal Shebeens next to our schools #YouthSafety #WarOnDrugs #September11 pic.twitter.com/ZmRu53nanz
— Shoman Lucky (@LuckyShoman) September 11, 2018
Your life is in danger if you’re black, poor and live in the City of Cape Town #CrimeStatistics
— Ntsika Maki (@eitabro) September 11, 2018
I understand why crime is so high.
We don’t have the police. You may think it’s an unfair statement. But when you listen to people’s accounts you’ll realize, we don’t have the police.
Still disagree? Go to West Street, Kempton Park today and watch. #CrimeStats #CrimeStatistics
— tebz (@tololodj) September 12, 2018
The statistics also provided receipts to the supposed “genocide” that’s taking place on South African farms. Much to Donald Trump and the right-wing’s surprise, farm murders only made 0.3% of murders.
Farm murders make up 0.3% of murders in SA yet those right-wing white manufacturers of outrage term it a “genocide”. Perhaps they should look at the amount of children killed across the country. #CrimeStatistics
— Nurswan (@NurSwan) September 11, 2018
